Bowditch School

The Bowditch School is an historic school building at 80—82 Green Street in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The three story brick and granite Classical Revival building was designed by Harrison Henry Atwood, a prominent local architect, and was built in 1892. Its main facade has a projecting three-part pavilion, with square entry openings at the base, and round-arch windows at the top level, with a modillioned cornice. It is named for Nathaniel Bowditch, a noted early 19th-century astronomer and mathematician.[2]

Bowditch School
Location80-82 Green St., Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°18′42.2″N 71°6′34.2″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1892
ArchitectHarrison H. Atwood
Architectural styleClassical Revival
NRHP reference No.90001145[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 3, 1990

By 1981 Boston Public Schools stopped using the facility, and the city government deemed it as excess to the city's needs in July of that year.[3]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

  • in 1920s-30s

See also
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "MACRIS inventory record for Bowditch School". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  3. "Bowditch School - National Register Materials". Jamaica Plain Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-10-24. The Bowditch School, declared a surplus property by the City of Boston in July of 1981, has been vacant since that time.


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